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Urban Settlements and Road Network Analysis on the Surrounding Area of the Almirante Alvaro Alberto Nuclear Complex, Angra dos Reis, Brazil

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Nuclear power plants accidents should be seen as very complex issues, once they encompass environmental and social aspects that must be integrated to sustain appropriate management measures in a potential disaster event. Therefore, emergency plans require sounds spatial information knowledge and the interactions of their environments. The herein study aims to contribute to the emergency plans, especially to the possible evacuation routes identification for a Nuclear Power Plant located in Angra dos Reis, Brazil. The study was conducted within 120 km radius around the power plant. Results indicate that evacuation plans should be elaborated for the urban cores with low roads availability, or even for high population density areas, that in spite of being well served by alternative routes, exhibit increased road traffic and population flow. These results present important information to provide support to local emergency management actions and guidelines, playing a key role to assist on the evacuation planning.

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To National Research Council (CNPq) for the scholarship provide to one of the authors and to the Geoprocessing Lab of the Polytechnic School of University of Sao Paulo for providing the infrastructure for the data processing.

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This study was funded by Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Científico e Tecnológico, Scientific Productivity Scholarship granted to José Alberto Quintanilha.

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Manfré, L.A., Cruz, B.B. & Quintanilha, J.A. Urban Settlements and Road Network Analysis on the Surrounding Area of the Almirante Alvaro Alberto Nuclear Complex, Angra dos Reis, Brazil. Appl. Spatial Analysis 13, 209–221 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12061-019-09299-2

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